Resources Tagged: Fruit Trees

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  1. Carambola—A Five Star Fruit

    20.10.2004 Carambola is an excellent fruit to grow in the tropics because it has prolific fruit production, high nutrition, almost continuous fruiting, wide appeal and is very adaptable to different soils and locations.
    JCB Starfruit Fruit Trees

  2. Loquat: A Fruit Tree Adaptable to Many Locations

    20.01.2005 A relative of pear, apple, and peach, the loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) tree is a lesser-known fruit.
    Fruit Trees

  3. Grow Small Fruit Trees in Circles

    19.07.1992 A novel idea has been to grow some fruit trees, like bananas and coconuts, in circles about 3 meters in diameter.
    JCB Fruit Trees Humus

  4. Avocado Trees

    20.07.2011 Rudy Poglitsh, Former intern working in Swaziland, sent in a question about health of Avocado trees. The problem seemed to be low pH. "We have about 18 avocado trees in the ground. Almost all of them are over five feet tall. The soil is very poor, and the leaves are a pale green/yellow. We are...
    pH Fruit Trees East Africa West Africa

  5. Cashew Growing Observations

    19.06.1992 Feedback from the network regarding cashew production.
    Cashew Rural Development Fruit Trees

  6. Go Easy With Fertilizer After Transplanting Trees and Shrubs.

    19.07.1994 Nitrogen fertilizer should not be applied to trees and shrubs directly after transplanting.
    Fertilizer Transplanting Fruit Trees

  7. Atemoya, A Quality Tropical Fruit

    19.10.1996 The atemoya is one of those fewfruits that can be considered a fully adequate dessert.
    Fruit Trees Annonas Nutrition

  8. New Disease-Resistant Banana Hybrids Available

    19.02.1998 Dr. Phil Rowe, with the Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research (FHIA), has developed two robust hybrid bananas that are resistant to Black Sigatoka. These new hybrids are also resistant to Panama disease and tolerant of nematodes.
    Plant Breeding Fruit Trees Banana Plant Disease

  9. Our Experience with Cashew

    19.12.1998 Cashew (Anacardium occidentale) may be known as a poor man’s crop, but this is probably because it grows well on sandy soils of poor fertility. In Mozambique and Tanzania, cashew occupies lowland areas close to the coast with a rainfall between 900-1300 mm (35.5-52 in) per year.
    Cashew Fruit Trees

  10. Temperate Fruit Tree Management

    03.02.2015
    Fruit Trees East Africa